Forests and fishermen gameplay!

[koolkat]

Well, finally I played forests, fishermen, whispering woods, winter 2008 and mathguy 2008 fan-made expansions with the usual suspects. I haven't made all the tiles yet but we played with these expansions and the base tiles, GQ11, River I and two sets of River II. I had about 80 tiles from the forests, about 50 from fishermen and only a few from the other fan-made. It made a lot of success in spite of playing it at Christmas Eve just after gift distribution. That is we played it from 3:00 am till 6:00 am. Yes, we have a big family. There were something between 250 and 300 tiles to play. We were all very sleepy but also excited. From this first game I concluded:
1) Forests are the easy elements to be completed because there are so many tiles.
2) Big cities are harder to complete because there are a lot of elements and because of the random play.
3) Board holes are a little easier to fill because there are a lot more tile configurations.
4) Rivers are the funniest elements to play. It's awesome the fact of having several rivers on the board.
5) River tunnels are the most popular features in these expansions.
6) Everyone adored the 4-sided 4-town mathguy tile. It's a pity it just came out near the finish.
7) Playing with these expansions takes a long time to play and there are no special or complicated rules because there are only base elements on the board.
8 ) Sometimes we need a very large table to play Carcassonne.

I can hardly wait to have another play with fan-made expansions, but I'll have to make some new tiles and order some more blank tiles from HiG.
You got to try it, guys. It's fantastic! I LOVE THIS GAME!

[Novelty]

Where are the pictures?

I'm glad at least one person enjoy the fan-made expansions.

[mathguy89]

I find it really cool to be mentioned in a session report - or at least my tile requests.  Big thanks to Novelty for making the actual tiles for that, and a decent amount of the other fan-made expansions.

[koolkat]

Novelty, I'm sorry but we were rather sleepy and it was from 3:00 am till 6:00 am.  Perhaps next time. Or I'll post a pic of base tiles with fan-made tiles.
And yes, I am a fan-made expansions fan. I'm the crazy guy who ordered 240 blank tiles from HiG. And I'm ordering lots more soon.

[Novelty]

No worries about the photos.  There's always a next time.  And I don't think 240 blank tiles will be enough... Forests and it's "children" has almost that many tiles.

Let's see

Forests: 150
Green Dragon: 60
Merry Men: 11 (+1)
Timber!: 12
Evergreen Forest: 45
Apple a Day: 6
Total: 284 (+1) tiles!

And that excludes Whispering Woods with 60 tiles

[koolkat]

That's why I'm buying some more.

[Novelty]

The good news is I'm planning on making some more too   I just noticed that I need to make Rivers with P&D icons, so maybe next year... Another 240 may not be enough.

[koolkat]

Well, my friend, I'm afraid to ask more blank tiles in one order. Like this perhaps they can feel that I'm a faithful client...
But that's good news. The more tiles, the better. Now I'm struggling to get the better way to keep them.

[Novelty]

As long as they don't think you are trying to sell tiles on E-bay or something...

As for better way of keeping them, why not look for those plastic boxes that fishermen use to keep hooks and things as suggested by kjamma4?

[koolkat]

I'll consider it or get hermetic bags. You know I also collect euro coins and buy them from the net and I get some those bags. I'll see what I can do.

[koolkat]

I got my second play with fan-made expansions. This time we had base set, River I, River II x 2, Forests, fisherman, Whispering Woods, Winter 2008, Mathguy 2008, I&C, T&B, Cult and Siege. Again we played it late at night so it didn't went too well in the end. We had to abort the game about 60+ tiles from the end because everyone was going to work today and we were very tired. But we enjoyed the game. I got some more conclusions:
1 ) Using T&B makes player build bigger cities and roads. It's a pity about forests and rivers.
2 ) Rivers are really popular.
3 ) With so many tiles to play, farms and pigs are almost forgotten.
4 ) There are many holes in the board but sooner or later they can be filled.
5 ) When playing with 300+ tiles never start to play after dinner. Smiley

Novelty, this time I took a picture from the final layout. It's missing same parts but only a few tiles are not shown.
If any of you had some fan-made experiences, tell us about it.

[Novelty]

koolkat, when you printed the tiles, did you have any troubles with it?  Can you describe how you print the tiles?  Thanks.

With regards to the upload folder, only Gantry (or Matt!) can fix that.  What I do is delete my old pictures (in the old posts, by editing the post) and then put in new ones.  I'll delete some of mine for you, but I have no idea how big your pictures are going to be.

[koolkat]

Novelty, thanks God I had no troubled on printing the tiles. I just scaled the pdf files images to 100% and printed them on normal paper sheets, cut them and glued them with paper glue so I could fix their position on the tile and that's it. A few tiles are starting to get unglued but i just have glued them again. The printer is a normal HP multifunction and I used normal printing configuration. I mean, I didn't use perfect printing in order not to spend too much ink. The tiles seem ok, don't they? I'm real proud of my new tiles. My game mate are asking me to make some for them too. Good sign.

I removed my other attachments and now I attached the latest fan-made expansions game pic. Thanks again for your support.

[Novelty]

Can you take a close-up picture of a mathguy2008 or winter2008 tile (or one each from both of those expansions) and email it to me please?  I wanna see if you are getting the same problems that wicke is describing.

[Lardarse]

Without knowing his problem: is he making sure that "fit to page" is off?